Congressional committee questions ATF oversight of gun dealers who sell firearms involved in a large number of crimes.
WASHINGTON — A congressional committee is sharpening their scrutiny of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, questioning the agency’s oversight of gun dealers who sell firearms involved in a large number of crimes.
“The Committee is gravely concerned that current law enforcement efforts are not adequately addressing this crisis,” Cummings wrote. “This investigation will inform Congress’s ability to make changes in federal law that saves lives.” The reason Congress is clueless is in part because of the rules Congress wrote, which have for years watered down its own ability to conduct oversight of the ATF — a policy priority of the National Rifle Association.
A separate amendment, known as a rider, attached to appropriations bills over the years prohibited the ATF from digitizing their records on gun licenses, which gun rights activists say has made it extremely difficult to obtain any information because an understaffed, underfunded ATF has to manually go through records.
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